page_title: List of Cornell University alumni
section_title: Other government
hierarchical_section_title: List of Cornell University alumni / Government / Other government
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of young Florence Kelley facing forward.
context_page_description: This list of Cornell University alumni includes notable graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. Cornell counted 245,027 living alumni as of August 2008. Its alumni constitute 25 recipients of National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation combined, 36 MacArthur Fellows, 34 Marshall Scholars and 31 Rhodes Scholars, 237 elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, 178 elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, 190 plus heads of higher learning institutions in the United States and around the world, and Cornell is the only university with three female winners of unshared Nobel Prizes among its graduates. Many alumni maintain university ties through Homecoming's reunion weekend, through Cornell Magazine, and through the Cornell Club of New York. In 2005, Cornell ranked No. 3 nationwide for gifts and bequests from alumni. Alumni are known as Cornellians. Cornellians are noted for their accomplishments in public, professional, and corporate life.
  Fictional alumni have been portrayed in several films, television shows, and books.
context_section_description: Carol Aichele (B.A.) – Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania (2011–2015)
  Steve Aichele (B.A. 1970) – former Chief of Staff of Governor Tom Corbett
  Alan A. Altshuler (B.A.) – Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation (1971–1975); former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and of the Graduate School of Public Administration at New York University; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
  Jane Amero (B.A. 1963) – member of Maine Senate (1992–2000)
  Irma Anderson (B.S. Nursing) – Mayor of the city of Richmond, California (2001–2006)
  Patrice M. Arent (J.D. 1981) – member of the Utah House of Representatives (January 1, 1997 – December 31, 2002, January 1, 2011–) and the Utah State Senate (January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2006)
  Michael Atkinson (J.D. 1991) – Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, involved in the Trump–Ukraine scandal
  Byron M. Baer – member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1972–1993) and of the New Jersey Senate (1994–2005)
  Calvin Barton (1899) – Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (1921–1923)
  Ruth Bascom (Master's in Social Psychology) – first female mayor of Eugene, Oregon (1993–1996)
  Bob Bastian (Veterinary Medicine 1963) – member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1999–2008)
  George Bell, Jr. (LL.B., 1894), United States Army Major General who commanded the 33rd Infantry Division in World War I and later the United States VI Corps
  George A. Blauvelt (1890) – member of the New York State Assembly (1911, 1912) and of the New York State Senate (1913, 1914)
  Peter Bowman (B.S. 1960 electrical engineering) – member of the Maine Senate (2006–2010)
  William B. Broydrick – Wisconsin politician
  Terry Calvani (J.D. 1972) – commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (1983–1990)
  Robert Cardillo (B.A. 1983 government) – director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (2014–2019)
  David Carlucci (B.S. 2002, ILR) – member of the New York Senate (January 1, 2011–)
  Nelson W. Cheney (B.A. 1899) – member of the New York State Assembly (1916–1929) and of the New York State Senate (1930–1938)
  Derek Chollet (B.A. 1993) – Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2012–2014)
  Parley Parker Christensen – Utah and California politician, Esperantist
  Bruce C. Clarke – United States Army general
  Clem S. Clarke (two years, Geology) – oilman and Republican politician from Shreveport, Louisiana
  David S. Cohen (B.A. 1985) – deputy director of the CIA (2015–), Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing (2009–2011)
  Mandy Cohen (B.S. 2000) – Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
  Ernest E. Cole (B.S. 1895) – Commissioner of Education of the State of New York, 1940–1942
  Rhonda Cornum (PhD 1980 biochemistry and nutrition) – former United States Army Brigadier general; former prisoner of war
  Edwin L. Crawford – first county executive of Broome County, New York
  Clifford W. Crouch (AAS 1965, dairy science) – member of the New York State Assembly
  Walter Cruickshank (B.A. Geological Sciences) – deputy director and then acting director of US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
  Charles d'Autremont (1868–1871) – Mayor of Duluth, Minnesota
  Samuel B. Dicker (1911) – 58th Mayor of Rochester, New York (1939–1955)
  Elizabeth B. Drewry (PhD 1933) – archivist with the National Archives and director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
  Harriet Drummond (B.S. 1974) – member of the Alaska House of Representatives (2013– )
  María del Rosario Guerra de La Espriella (M.S. Agricultural Economy) – Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of the Government of Colombia (2006–2010) and Senator of Colombia (2014–)
  Robert Flanagan (J.D. 1974) – secretary of the Maryland Department of Transportation (2003–2007) and member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–2003)
  John Ford – member of the New York State Senate (1896–1900)
  Stephen Friedman (B.A. 1959; trustee, 1993–) – chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2005–2009); former assistant for economic policy to President George W. Bush (2002–2004) and
caption: Florence Kelley
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